My favourite restaurant is Sea - there's one in the Meat Packing District (although my favourite is in Williamsburg, Brooklyn), it's fantastic Thai food in a stylish environment (and it's pretty good value too :-), the Meatpacking District is full of great fashion places and right there you can get onto the "The High Line" - an old abandoned elevated railroad turned into a parkland heath.

Show tickets are twice the price of here, but you can get some discount tickets at the half price booth in Times Square.